{"id":17232,"date":"2021-03-24T07:47:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17232"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:48:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:48:39","slug":"book-12-of-52-the-battle-of-betazed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/book-12-of-52-the-battle-of-betazed\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 12 (of 52) &#8211; The Battle Of Betazed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17234\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Battle_of_Betazed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17234\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17234\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Battle_of_Betazed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Battle_of_Betazed.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Battle_of_Betazed-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Battle Of Betazed &#8211; Charlotte Douglas and Susan Kearney<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the Dominion War going poorly for the Federation, the Enterprise and Counselor Troi are tasked with a mission to free Betazed from Cardassian control.\u00a0 While Troi tries to grapple with a decision that may help win the war but will change the Betazoids forever, Riker leads an away team to destroy\u00a0Sentok Nor, the new space station the Cardassians built in orbit around Betazed, using their knowledge of Deep Space Nine.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, during the throes of the pandemic, I finally watched all of <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>.\u00a0 One of my biggest questions during the Dominion storyline was, &#8220;Where is the Enterprise?&#8221;\u00a0 Now, I know the real world reasons, but they never really addressed a in-universe reason as to why the Federation flagship was nowhere to be seen.\u00a0 In <em>The Battle Of Betazed<\/em>, Charlotte Douglas and Susan Kearney try to address that question, giving the Enterprise and her crew a decisive battle, even though it was away from the front lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Dominion War going poorly for the Federation, the Enterprise and Counselor Troi are tasked with a mission to free Betazed from Cardassian control.\u00a0 While Troi tries to grapple with a decision that may help win the war but will change the Betazoids forever, Riker leads an away team to destroy\u00a0Sentok Nor, the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9339,9173,5187,9340,9338],"class_list":["post-17232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-charlotte-douglas","tag-star-trek-deep-space-nine","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation","tag-susan-kearney","tag-the-battle-of-betazed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17236,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions\/17236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}